Betsey Johnson through hard work and many ups and downs has carved herself a permanent name in fashion. Betsey Johnson was born in Wethersfield Connecticut on August 10, 1942. As a young child Betsey was a dancer who was very inspired by the costumes they wore. She started her college studies at Pratt University but graduated from Syracuse University. After college in 1964 she won a chance to be a guest editor for Mademoiselle Magazine.
In 2011 Jennifer joined the cast of American Idol as one of the judges.Lopez started a clothing line in 2003. Named JLO by Jennifer Lopez, the line had different types of clothing for young women, including jeans, T-shirts, coats, belts, purses, and lingerie, a jewelry line, and an accessory line that includes hats, gloves, and scarves. Lopez participated in the Louis Vuitton Winter 2003 campaign. In 2005, she launched a new clothing line called Sweetface. In late 2007, Lopez retired JLO by Jennifer Lopez and launched a new juniors' line called JustSweet.
Reasons for Choosing Vera Wang is not only the wedding dress that’s dreamed of, but also has an upscale identity in fashion. Unmarried girls long to own a Vera Wang; married women often miss their Vera Wang; remarried women are fortunate to be able to have a Vera Wang. And of course, Vera Wang is also my dream wedding dress. Background A. History In 1990, Vera Wang opened her first bridal house on Madison Avenue in New York, designing bridal wear and evening gowns.
He had a screen test by M-G-M, he appeared in the film Kiss Me Kate (1953). Since Kiss Me Kate was a highly original dance number, this led him to his first job as a choreographer. It was the Broadway hit directed by Jerome Robbins, The Pajama Game (1954). A little while later he met Gwen Verdon, who was a talented dancer. The two collaborated on several hit shows such as, Damn Yankee (1955, film 1958), New Girl in Town (1957), and Redhead (1959).
Romanticism responded to industrialization by shunning it and turning to nature, emotion, and mysticism. Realism was for the most part a reaction to Romanticism and its gaudy whimsicalness, but was also heavily influenced by industrialization. Rather than turning a
The fashion show held in the Palace of Versailles became one of the highlights in her career, she marked the acceptance of American fashion forever. Eleanor Lambert is known as an innovator for her many attributions to the fashion world. Some of her creations that she introduced over fifty years ago are still accepted in the fashion industry. Some examples include the Lambert originated International Best Dressed List, which was an expanded version of the best dressed list created in Paris but was suspended during World War II. Women are nominated to become part of prestigious list annually by
Children’s fashion was influenced by what Shirley Temple would wear in her films (Chancey, fig 9). At this time, films were beginning to incorporate voices of the actors, known as ‘talkies.’ In the United States, they helped secure Hollywood's position as one of the world's most powerful cultural and commercial systems. Until this point, it was unprecedented that woman sought fashion trends through film. Originally woman looked for trends through advertisements in newspapers and magazines (figs 5 and 7). Woman indulged themselves in fur and silk, if they were wealthy enough.
While modernism connects with primitivism, another art movement, postmodernism disconnects from the traditional and encourages uniqueness and individuality, more like making the futuristic a reality. It is a constant improvement of what used to be, and adding more, that what used to be, no longer is. From the writings of Fredric Jameson on Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, and of Sharon Mahealani Rowe on We Dance For Knowledge, we shall see how postmodernism disconnects from the original and traditional and how history weakens to oblivion. When you see women in grass skirts and leis and dancing to the hula beat, it is no mistake to connect it with Hawaii. The dance has been appreciated all over the world, used in talent shows and contests and even merged with modern beat.
It came from the post-modern era. Striving to create the next best thing, the fashion industry looked to postmodernism, a time that drew pieces of the past to move forward to the future. The influence of postmodernism is needed in fashion in order to keep the fashion industry alive. In order to fully understand how both spectrums relate to the other, the post-modern must be discussed. The term post-modern covers a broad range of meanings.
(Spindler 1993: 1). Why we need deconstruction fashion? "Fashion" is a modernist system which is made up of "new looks". The aim of fashion system is to hunt for the new. Before deconstruction fashion appearance the old fashion is always copy the old style clothes.